Pt. Hope, Alaska
Just got back from a trip to Pt. Hope. It's a small Eskimo community on the NorthWest tip of Alaska, close to the International Date Line... not far from Russia.
We hopped on a 737 out of Anchorage to Kotzebue, spent a few hours there waiting for the fog to lift in Pt. Hope before jumping on a twin Navajo from Kotzebue to Pt. Hope. It was a 14 hour day just traveling there by airplane... easy money.
As is usually the case when working remotely, we work 20 hour days and taking pictures of the scenery quickly becomes a non-priority as we power through the job as fast as we can while getting everything right. This job was a hard one - we had to keep the telephone, internet & cell sites operational while replacing all the power equipment, including the backup batteries for the system. One small mistake and the whole network crashes and that's always a bad thing.
Kotzebue :
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